I like the work they're doing, but their 'as a service' model makes it a nonstarter for pretty much every project I've done; both at home and at work.
Re:Ggplot2 docs remade in D3.js
by nicklovescode on Thursday May 26, 2016 @09:24PM
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I'm using plotly. Do you have specific technical info here on how to turn it off and how it's sent to them? Do you have your contact with the project maintainers.
Probably this:
https://github.com/plotly/plotly.js/issues/316
see the sendDataToCloud function here: https://github.com/plotly/plotly.js/blob/f1701614e46d3bdf4fc...
There are instructions in the issue link on how to turn this behavior off.
I raised this issue with the project maintainers and they stated that the wish of the parent company is for this to remain the default.
So, just a warning to enterprise developers, you have to fiddle with this to turn that off, but without a clear policy statement or a reasonable fork of the project that addresses the privacy and security issues, I've been advocating against use of Plot.ly.